Star EFI-X Violates LGPL, Uses Community Code without Attribution
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 21st Sep 2009 08:44 UTC, submitted by Cytor
Hardware, Embedded Systems There are several options out there if you wan to run Mac OS X on your non-Apple labelled computer, but one of them appears to be in serious trouble. It has been uncovered that the EFI-X module is nothing more than a USB stick with a DRM chip, with code from the hackintosh community on it - without attribution. On top of that, its firmware update utility uses LGPL code - again, without attribution.
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RE[7]: Comment by lurch_mojoff
by SJ87 on Mon 21st Sep 2009 15:11 UTC in reply to "RE[6]: Comment by lurch_mojoff"
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the GPL is the absolutely worst license one can pick when arguing against the equivalence, or even outright equality, of source code and software licenses (or fairness thereof). -- That is in effect taking my exclusive ownership away from me.


The GPL doesn't exist to make you or me any more special than the rest are. It's about community.

And how can GPL take away your "exclusive ownership" to someone else's code? AFAIK the GPL doesn't forbid the real owner of the code to release software based on the same code under another, 'more restrictive', license. Meaning that you could just pay him to get a permission to release your version of the code using some other license.

Edited 2009-09-21 15:14 UTC

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